This product includes a menu of nine ranked and varied activities that can be used as a formative or summative assessment. Activities are assigned points, students choose their activities to add up to 16 points or more. Read the information below and view the preview for a more detailed look!

Topics Covered:

• Geography
• Domestication
• Cave Paintings
• Complex Villages
• Vocabulary
• Homo Habilis
• Homo Erectus
• Lucy
• Tools
• Farming
• Surplus
• Nomads
• Hunter Gatherers

Skills Covered:

• Summarizing
• Compare and Contrast
• Analyzing
• Evaluating
• Research
• Writing
• Diagraming
• Charting
• Defining
• Creativity
• Technology Integration

Sample Activities:

• Create a slideshow that describes some of the changes that occurred in the way people lived as they changed from a nomadic to a settled way of life and hypothesize what would happen to nomads if they didn’t adapt to their environments. 5 slides minimum.
• Write a poem that explains how hunter-gatherers adapted to their environments and info about how  cave paintings were an art form of early humans. 10 line minimum.  Rhyming is optional.
• Write a news article that explains how Lucy was discovered and the impact of the discovery. Describe her condition when found and what scientists report about her discovery. Include images. 2 paragraphs minimum.

Other Information:

• Google Drive or Google Classroom ready!
• Google Slides
• Grading Rubric included
• Distance Learning Friendly
• Digital Resource
• Editable with free Canva.com account!

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